wel: wel faren: to fare well; welfare; wellbeing, the state of being happy & healthy
nest: a snug, comfortable, or cozy resort
About Wel-Nest
The Collective
The foundation of Wel-Nest was born out of a passion for a people first - community first approach to health, based on community engagement, education, and industry partnerships.
Founded in beautiful, Bella Vista, Arkansas, Wel-Nest is a collective; a collaboration envisioned by a team of cross-sector professionals & partners with diverse experiences from across the US and UK. We focus on health and social equity, driven by a shared vision of changing the way we live, learn, work and play. We offer population health strategies to help bring health impacts into focus, utilizing non-traditional partnerships among different sectors of the community – public health, industry, education, recreation, health care, and local government entities – to achieve positive health outcomes.
We guide and collaborate on ways to protect and promote health and social equity in policies and projects during the planning and design phase, through to evaluation.
Discover the way To A Healthier Community
Natasha Brand - Director of Heath Impact
Natasha Brand - Director of Heath Impact
Natasha Brand - Director of Heath Impact
Originally from the UK, Natasha has over three decades of research experience beginning in the legal industry and moving into educational resources. Upon moving to the US in 2005 this led to further study and a developing interest in health and social equity. Natasha has worked across multiple sectors developing outcome driven solutions, and integrated health-based strategies - including health impact assessment, patient education, health prescription, participatory research & community engagement-based programming. Natasha is a facilitator, developing innovative, applied learning methods and research approaches to community development. As a member of the Urban Land Institute Health Leader's Network, she is globally connected within her field and continues to activate community partnerships that support health & social equity.
Rachel Fox - Director of Accessibility
Natasha Brand - Director of Heath Impact
Natasha Brand - Director of Heath Impact
Rachel is an inclusion and accessibility consultant for businesses and brands across the globe, She has spent years building her own strategy for designing physical spaces and events that provide least restrictive environments for as diverse a community as possible. The end goal is to ensure that every step of engagement with community programming provides a truly equitable experience, where all members of our extremely diverse community are considered in each step of the design process.
Rachel has written articles on sensory-friendly and accessible design, as well as the future of universal design, for publications such as Design Sponge, Wolf & Friends, and Better Homes and Gardens.
our services
Health Impact & Accessibility Assessments
Health Impact & Accessibility Assessments
Health Impact & Accessibility Assessments
Our services include:
Multiple service types to fit your project needs from a two-week desktop review to a twelve month + project or policy review, to include literature reviews, community collaboration, focus groups, customized surveys, data collection and reporting,
Health Impact Assessment can:
Influence decision makers
Highlight pote
Our services include:
Multiple service types to fit your project needs from a two-week desktop review to a twelve month + project or policy review, to include literature reviews, community collaboration, focus groups, customized surveys, data collection and reporting,
Health Impact Assessment can:
Influence decision makers
Highlight potential health impacts
Facilitate collaboration and public participation in decision-making
Promote sustainable development
Encourage appreciation of public health in the decision-making process
Raise awareness of how the built environment affects health
Assess how proposals will affect community members and specified at-risk subpopulations
Education & Training
Health Impact & Accessibility Assessments
Health Impact & Accessibility Assessments
We provide:
Consultation and training on population health, accessibility and health impact frameworks.
We offer cross-sector workforce education & training customized to your organization's needs.
Services include:
Workshop or remote presentation on introduction to health impact assessment and the evaluation process
Building customized frame
We provide:
Consultation and training on population health, accessibility and health impact frameworks.
We offer cross-sector workforce education & training customized to your organization's needs.
Services include:
Workshop or remote presentation on introduction to health impact assessment and the evaluation process
Building customized frameworks to increase cross-sector collaboration during the planning phases of policies and projects
Advanced health impact training with stakeholders - providing a customized package including tools and resources to conduct HIA and health evaluations as an internal process in your organization
Community Research
Health Impact & Accessibility Assessments
Community Research
We offer:
Full range of research services supporting health focused project development- our team uses a cross sector approach from health, policy, recreation, placemaking, creative media and storytelling.
Services include:
Project and grant proposal support
Policy review, design & development
Research plan design and review
Health focused rese
We offer:
Full range of research services supporting health focused project development- our team uses a cross sector approach from health, policy, recreation, placemaking, creative media and storytelling.
Services include:
Project and grant proposal support
Policy review, design & development
Research plan design and review
Health focused research
Custom reporting, media & graphics packages
Custom community event planning and focus group organization
Contact Us
From inclusive communities & healthy schools to sports equity & recreation. You are our priority!
Call us: 479-319-7698
